Josiah Bearss1

b. 10 March 1690, d. 31 August 1753
Last Edited=16 Jan 2011
     Josiah Bearss was born on 10 March 1690 at Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.2,1 He was the son of Joseph Bearss and Martha Taylor.3,4

Josiah Bearss married Zerviah Newcomb, daughter of Andrew Newcomb and Anna Bayes, on 2 November 1716 at Edgartown, Massachusetts.5,1

Josiah Bearss died on 31 August 1753 at New Fairfield, Connecticut, at age 63.1

Children of Josiah Bearss and Zerviah Newcomb

Citations

  1. Bethuel Merrit Newcomb, Andrew Newcomb, 1618-1686, and his descendants, a revised edition of "Genealogical memoir" of the Newcomb family, published 1874 by John Bearse Newcomb (New Haven, Conn: Privatrly printed for the author by The Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1923), 21; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/ : accessed 16 Mar 2008).
  2. "Barnstable, MA: Vital Records 1625-1903," 2008, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 16 Jan 2011), entry for Josiah Berse; citing ” Records of Barnstable, Massachusetts. CD-ROM. Boston, MA: New EnglandHistoric Genealogical Society, 2002.
  3. "Barnstable, MA: Vital Records 1625-1903," Joseph Berse,.
  4. "Barnstable, MA: Vital Records 1625-1903," Joseph Berse and Martha Tayler,.
  5. Vital records of Edgartown, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1906), 95; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/ : accessed 15 Mar 2008).